Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Ray Manzarek

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton